View full sizeAP PhotoRunning back Le'Veon Bell is much of the reason one Big Ten writer ranks Michigan State's ground game among the best in the league for 2012.

After a week of bluster about a BCS playoff from the Southeastern Conference at its meetings, the Big Ten's presidents and commissioner met Sunday in Chicago.

Later this morning, University of Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman, Indiana president Michael McRobbie and commissioner Jim Delany are scheduled to speak to reporters about the happenings of their annual meeting.

Two more meetings in which to really pay attention: June 19-20 in Chicago, when all the Division I conference commissioners meet; and June 26, the BCS presidential oversight committee, which is scheduled to convene in Washington.

By July, much of the college football playoff structure and selection process could be set.

And Big Ten Network senior writer Tom Dienhart continues his series ranking Big Ten teams by position unit, looking at running back. Dienhart ranks Michigan State, led by junior Le'Veon Bell, at No. 2, after Wisconsin and just ahead of Michigan. This isn't a surprise, though the Spartans did finish 11th in the league in rushing a year ago.